by Alan Wright | Dec 1, 2025 | Packaging Suppliers, Packaging Solutions
We’ve all been there. Hurray, your ceramic bowl has arrived! But using the shipping box’s “easy-opening” tear-off strip feels like a game of tug-of-war. The enclosed instructions for setting up the returnable shipping box are more complicated than instructions for...
by Michael Boik | Nov 10, 2025 | Packaging Solutions, Ecommerce Packaging
There truly is no substitute for experience, and we have a lot of it. Next year will mark our 19th year in business, and with that considerable amount of time comes a lot of insight into this ever-changing industry. We do not use the term “experts” lightly, and we...
by Michael Boik | Oct 23, 2025 | Packaging Solutions, Ecommerce Packaging
As the year winds down, we tend to reflect on what we saw in the industry—from old, reliable trends and consistencies, to what’s new and emerging among the many ecommerce companies we work with daily. It’s beneficial to know what’s hot/trendy and try to gauge where...
by Dennis Salazar | Oct 16, 2025 | Subscription Boxes, Packaging Suppliers, Packaging Solutions, Ecommerce Packaging
Auto-refill type products and programs have been around as long as I can remember. However, around 2009 the internet made it much easier, and the packaging industry started calling them subscription boxes, or “sub boxes”. It became an ideal way for consumers to...
by Michael Boik | Oct 9, 2025 | Packaging Suppliers, Packaging Solutions, Packaging Design
There’s no question AI has made many things easier and improved a lot of industries in many ways. But it is by no means perfect, and in some cases can create more problems than it solves. In the packaging industry, there has been the beginning of a shift we have...
